Dr. Sonu Balhara Ahlawat is a well-known IVF & Infertility Specialist. She is trained in endoscopic procedures and artificial reproductive techniques at the prestigious Army Hospital Research & Referral, New Delhi and has over 25 years of extensive knowledge in reproductive medicine. She has an extensive experience with all routine and emergency obstetric and gynecological operations, including oocyte pick-up (OPU), embryo transfer, intrauterine insemination, follicular aspiration, and follicle monitoring on ultrasound.
Her core focus areas include reproductive medicine, IVF procedures, IUI, and third-party reproduction procedures. She also has an extensive experience in fertility preservation, high-risk pregnancy (hysteroscopy laparoscopy), recurrent pregnancy loss, and endoscopic treatments.
She has till now done over 2000 IVF procedure successfully and even having delivered a few twins. She has done IVF procedures even for elderly couples successfully. The procedures also includes couples for whom the male member is azoospermic or if the female is low egg count. For those where sperm and egg pick up is not possible from natural couple, she has a donor list from all gene types to help couple have their own child.
Her first endeavor though remains to help couple reproduce naturally by relieving them from stress, getting the hormone balance right and opening up any blocked tubes due to ovarian cysts or fibroids. She would suggest an IVF or IVF-ICSE procedure for couple who may not reproduce naturally. For Indian patients she helps find a surrogate also.
IVF as a procedure is suggested to couple who cannot produce a child due to infertility issues or other reasons. It has come up very strongly in recent times as a cure for infertility.